Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Choretrum sp. Coxs Gap

Common name

None

Family

Santalaceae

Where found

Forest. North of Wollongong. Mainly ranges.

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 5 m high, yellowish green. Stems strongly angular, broadly and prominently ridged below the leaf scars, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.075–0.2 cm long, appressed to slightly spreading, present on young stems and growing tips, falling early. Flowers with 5 'petals', single; subtended by leaf-like bracts. Flowers summer. Fruit initially fleshy, dry and pale when mature.

Full name Choretrum sp. Coxs Gap (B.J.Lepschi 4218 & T.R.Lally) Lepschi

Was Choretrum sp. A.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Choretrum~sp.+Coxs+Gap+(B.J.Lepschi+4218+;amp;+T.R.Lally)+Lepschi (accessed 7 January, 2021)